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Alice In Wonderland Main Character
1,464 wordsREMARKABLE a whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to be the history of Philosophy. Jostein Gaarder made his Norwegian literary debut in 1986 with a collection of short stories, followed by two young adult novels. In 1990 he received the Norwegian Literary Critics Award and the Ministry of Cultural and Scientific affairs Literary Prize for his book The Solitaire Mystery. Mr. Gaarder taught high school philosophy for eleven years in Norway, giving him a strong basis for writing ...
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Gross Domestic Product Consumer Spending
526 wordsThe United States Department of Commerce has issued a statement proclaiming that personal income grew faster in September than in any other month since August 1999. This growth is largely due to the increase in federal farm subsidies which boosted personal income by $ 61 billion. Private wage and salary disbursements also increased by over $ 25 billion in September, adding to the total personal income bump up. The Department of Commerce said that the net personal income increased by 1. 1 % in Se...
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Man And The Sea Five Days
366 wordsPeople wonder what perseverance is? According to The America Heritage Dictionary perseverance means: To persist in or remain constant to a purpose, idea, or task in spite of obstacles. In the book, The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Santiago shows many ways of perseverance. Perseverance was seen in Santiago throughout The Old Man and the Sea, and was also seen in my life when I was in my last year of hockey. In The Old Man and the Sea Santiago showed some ways of pe...
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Amount Of Money Full Service
644 wordsFull-Service Firms Will Bring More Spice to Web-Trading War Investors who have invested online at discount web sites may drop their current service provider and go to a full service firm. Full service firms such as Merril Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and Paine Webber have entered into the online web trading war. The only catch is, unlike the discount firms; the full service firms offer professional advice. The full service firms have dropped commission rates and fees for online trading. The price...
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Final Stages Making Process
1,099 wordsweb The "Generation X" population of today's society has made the wearing of beaded necklaces containing fimo beads quite a fashion statement. These necklaces contain small, round, colored plastic beads and other intricate beads made out of different colored fimo. Fimo is a synthetic material similar to modeling clay, and can be used to make thousands on types of beads. These beads can then be incorporated into necklaces. However, to accurately describe the process of making this style of bead, ...
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California And Arizona Seventeenth Century
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Eleven Seconds Left Throw A Football Kentucky
644 wordsI sat down to watch LSU play against Kentucky earlier this year. LSU really needed to win the game to stay alive in the SEC title hunt and Kentucky figured to be an easy opponent. But Kentucky was at home and the players were ready. Kentucky would go on to play a great game that day. When they walked off the field that day it would be covered with Kentucky fans and their coach would be drenched in Gatorade. During football season, I spend my Saturdays and Sundays watching college and professiona...
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Lucent Technologies Company Profile
1,211 wordsIntroduction Lucent Technologies Lucent Technology is North America's leading maker of telecom equipment and software, including switching and transmission equipment and business communications systems. Lucent Technologies, started trading publicly in 1996 with an initial public offering that was, at the time, the largest in domestic history (Hayes). In December 1999, Lucent's stock reached a high of $ 77. 78 and was the nation's fourth most widely held stock (Romero and Atlas). But by July 2001...
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Biometric Security Personal Information
862 wordsIn particular we may mention NEC company because they are involved in Biometric security products production. Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions provider NEC Corp has revealed a combined biometric and smart card solution for improving the security of a network. The new offering requires a user to verify their identity through fingerprint recognition technology before logging on to a network or even entering an office. Biometric identification can also be used when a us...
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Point Of Sale Wal Mart
747 wordsKmart Net sales in fiscal 2001 where $ 997; this is a decrease from $ 1, 114 net sales of 2000. The decrease is the result of lower net earnings, excluding non-comparable items, partially offset by a decrease in inventory and an increase in accounts payable. Investing activities was $ 1, 1501 in 2001 compared to $ 1, 144 in 2000. The increase in cash used for investing activities was due to higher capital expenditures for the conversion an expansion of Kmart stores to Kmart Super centers, expans...
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Ny Times Market Share
683 wordsMike Zafirovski, known as Mike Z joined Motorola team in June 2000 as the chief of the largest Motorola segment - the Personal Communications Sector (wireless handsets, related software and consumer two-way radio as well as personal messaging and paging devices). In the two years he lead the sector, Motorola's handset business improved its positions on the market, became profitable again and introduced a new global marketing campaign. In 2003, Motorola saw the first increase of demand in three y...
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Due To The Fact One Of The Major
1,616 words... consideration cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences. This computer is very Americanized and thus cannot always be understood by European users. Other major weaknesses include: employee turnover has increased from 6 % for a ten year period to 7. 4 %; elaborate 5 -layers of management leading to red tape and dilution of two way communication within; frequent reorganization, reorientation and autocratic shades do dampen employee creativity leading to a loss of key personnel and chilling o...
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Reading This Article Alan Greenspan
675 wordsThe article, " Greenspan gets another Fed term, " in the New York Times discussed Alan Greenspan's success and failures during his term. The article was fairly easy reading. I found some statements to be quite amusing however, there were some issues discussed that was a little ambiguous. Reading this article, I learned that President Clinton nominated Alan Greenspan to a fourth term as chairman of the nations central bank. I had no clue as to what the title of chairman of the nations c...
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Central Nervous System Enhancing Drugs
1,582 wordsDrugs in Football: Making an Appropriate Decision Breaking the rules in football, because of drug use, is causing physical and mental damage to athletes and those who associate with them. It is also setting a bad example for the youth of America. There is just too many available drugs for football players today. For football players, drugs are easy to obtain. Too easy to obtain. Bill Gilbert, a Sports Illustrated writer, said, they do not have to stand around in waiting rooms, at pharmacy counte...
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California And Arizona Seventeenth Century
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Methyl Bromide Planet
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P 038 G 038 Gamble
427 wordsNEW YORK (CNNfn) The head of Procter &# 038; Gamble Co. a controversial corporate veteran who tried to shake up the venerable consumer products maker through an aggressive growth strategy quit abruptly Thursday amid the companys ongoing profit woes. York Jager, who served as CEO of Cincinnati-based P&# 038; G for a turbulent year and a half, resigned, effective immediately. Jager, who also served as president and chairman, spearheaded an ambitious restructuring effort, dubbed Organization 2005, ...
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Gross Domestic Product Interest Rates
566 wordsOften time s Recession Recession Often time s people in this country today, take for-granted the comfort they have established over the past several years. A booming economy and a bull market has set the standard for today s society, giving us an optimistic outlook for tomorrow. However more and more these days, people are starting to use that dirty little word that would make any investor cringe. That little nine-letter word that over the years has toppled giants, crushed business, and sent som...
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Sun And Moon Gravitational Force
941 wordsThe tides at a given place in the Earths oceans occur about an hour later each day. Since the Moon passes overhead about an hour later each day, it was long suspected that the Moon was associated with tides. Newtons Law of Gravitation provided a quantitative understanding of that association. Differential Forces Consider a water molecule in the ocean. It is attracted gravitationally by the Earth, but it also experiences a much smaller gravitational attraction from the Moon (much smaller because ...
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Amount Of Money Thousand Dollars
790 wordsSocial Stakeholder Society Stakeholder Society Social equality has long been a dream of many Americans. It would be wonderful to live in a society where everyone had equal or nearly equal opportunities, but the United States will never be the land of equal opportunity because it is just not going to happen because we have been socially stratified for too long to ever be equal. However, as Ackerman and Alstott propose in The Stakeholder Society, we may be able to offer Americans an equal monetary...
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